Nordlys is the Norwegian word for the Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis. The Nordlys hat was inspired by the incredible green light show that rises in the arctic sky during the dark winter. The stitch pattern along the bottom is a slipped stitch rib that continues into a slipped stockinette stich pattern. The floats from the slipped stitch create a little extra thickness around the ears where you want it, and the stockinette crown gives a little more softness and slouchiness. For a bolder show, knit the hat with two colors. The monochrome hat has a subtler but still striking array of rising stitches.

Nordlys is for sale now, but it is part of the Lofoten Collection of three hats that also includes the Sea Slab Hat and Lichen It Hat that will be released individually and as an e-book on Nov. 1, 2013.